Mississippi double lynching shocks state officials
In Winona Mississippi April 14 a mob seized Roosevelt Townes and Bootjack McDaniels and hanged them near Duck Hill. Officers recover reports on the incident as Governor Hugh White orders a full inquiry while the legislature debates an anti lynching measure. Townes died from burns and McDaniels from a gunshot after being tortured.
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Winona
Miss
House Judiciary Committee
House of Representatives
White
Jackson
Mississippi
Townes
McDaniels
McDatiels
Trade secret disclosed in tobacco firm profits report
Washington April 14 chairman James M Landis of the Securities Commission revealed a major trade secret about five large tobacco companies. The report lists 1935 profits and costs for American Tobacco Liggett and Myers R J Reynolds P Lorillard United States Tobacco and others with varying disclosure of selling and administrative expenses.
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Washington
James M. Landis
The
Securities Commission
Liggett and Myers
R. J. Reynolds
P. Lorillard Company
United States Tobacco Company
Railroad Seeks Dock and Pier at Edenton Bay
The Norfolk Southern railroad asked authorities for permission to construct a 250 foot dock and extension pier from its freight yard into Edenton Bay to unload materials for the vehicular bridge over the sound.
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Edenton
Norfolk Southern Railroad
Edenton Bay
Sound
Canadian Strike Tensions Rise As Mayor Demands Action
In Oshawa Ontario Mayor Alex Hall privately pushes an ultimatum to United Automobile Workers officials and Canadian workers to strike if General Motors talks stall. The move comes as a 3,700 worker walkout widens, while Toronto PM Mitchell Hepburn calls for cabinet resignations over union influence efforts in Canada.
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General Motors
U.S
Hepburn
Oshawa
Ont
Alex Hall
United Automobile Workers Union
United States
Aero
Gail Suet
Homer Martin
Detroit
CLO
Toronto
Mitchell Hepburn
Ontario
John L. Lewis
Canada
Women Of Presbytery Meet Here Tomorrow
Delegates and speakers arrive in High Point for the 40th annual meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary of Orange Presbytery at First Presbyterian Church. Rev. Houston Patterson will speak. opening prayer led by Mrs. D J Blackwell. program includes 2:30 Thursday session and executive board today.
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Woman's Auxi of Orange Presbytery
First Presbyterian Church
High Point
Woman's Auxiliary of Orange Presbytery
Houston Patterson
China
D. J. Blackwell
Orange Presbyterial
P. H. Dalton
C. C. Williamson
Convention Church
Kemp Alexander
Burlington
A. V. Gibson
Union Drives Quickened Amid Labor Tactics And Wage Talks
Labor leaders pressed unionization campaigns after the Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Act. The two main groups, CIO and AFL, weighed congressional limits on strike tactics and awaited presidential proposals on a national minimum wage and maximum hour standards. William Green of the AFL and rival CIO figures led the movement.
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Associated Press
Organized Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court
William Green
The
A. F. of L
John
Jewelers to convene in Durham with Evans address
Charles T. Evans secretary of the National Retail Jewelers Association will address the North Carolina and Virginia Jewelers annual convention in Durham April 18 to 20.
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Durham
Charles T. Evans
National Retail Jewelers Association
North Carolina
Virginia
Byrnes Considers Action On Sitdown Strikes
Byrnes says Supreme Court upheld Wagner Act shows Congress can outlaw sit down strikes. A House Committee approved a resolution condemning sit-downs and industrial espionage, with Byrnes weighing a stronger action. He may amend to forbid sitdown strikes or wait for broader changes. He’ll file a labor spy amendment to curb importing strike breakers.
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Washington
Narom Byrnes
D-Sc
Supreme Court
Congress
House
Senate
Byrnes
Titanic 25th anniversary recalling greatest maritime disaster
The article recalls the 1912 sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage after a SOS call and the loss of 1 513 lives, noting 711 survivors from 2 224 aboard. It also reports British labor opposition over protecting English ships entering Bilbao during a siege, calling it a surrender of rights.
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Veasel
London
Bilbao
Bullet Wounds Fatal To Woman
Mrs. M. R. Kinnick, 32, farm wife, died in a Johnson City hospital after bullets pierced her back through a window last Friday night. Her husband was wounded in the shoulder. A 17-year-old, S. L. Saulsbury, was jailed at Blountville in connection with the shootings, reportedly after Kinnick ordered him from the farm over attention to the couple’s 13-year-old daughter.
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Johnson City
Tenn
M. R. Kinnick
S. L. Saulsbury
Blountville
Kinnick
Saulsbury
Italian Fascists Urge Sink Enemy Ships in Span ish War
Italian Fascist organ taunts Britain over protecting shipping and urges insurgent warships to torpedo and sink enemy vessels. British cargo-ship protection in Spanish waters sparks fear among Conservative shipowners and labor leaders about worsened tensions.
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Great Britain
Fascista
Cremona
Italy
Britannia
Brittain
France
Russia
Government officials visit High Point furniture makers
Adrian J. Dornbush and Robert Van Hyning of the Resettlement Administration met local manufacturers in High Point to discuss bids for thousands of bedroom and living room suites for resettlement projects. The Green Belt in Maryland will include about 700 government furnished homes, with goods also shipped to Penderlea in North Carolina and other communities. Government specs guide production, but few Southern firms have shown interest amid busy civilian orders.
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Adrian J. Dornbush
The
Resettlement Administration
Robert van Hyning
Washington
High Point
Green Belt
Penderlea
Pender County
Citizens Oppose Union in Harlan County Coal Dispute
Philip Murray of the United Mine Workers testified before a Senate civil liberties committee that public officials in Harlan County Kentucky aided in opposing coal miner organization. He accused the County Coal Operators' association sheriff several county judges and political machines of brutality intimidation and gunmen to block unionization and of defying NRA coal code and Wagner act protections.
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Washington
Philip Murray
United Mine Workers
Senate
Harlan County
Civil Liberties Committee
Harlan
Murray
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
NRA
Cotton Consumption Rises in March Reports Census Bureau
The census bureau shows March cotton consumption at 799,302 bales of lint and 74,221 linters, up from February totals of 664,349 lint and 63,643 linters and March last year’s 550,641 lint and 61,120 linters. On hand March 31, consuming establishments held 2,079,862 lint bales and 297,598 linters.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Maverick Warns of Chiselers Invading the South
Virginia leaders heard Congressman Maury Maverick of Texas accuse industrial carpetbaggers of bringing cheap labor into the South. He told the Jeffersonian Democratic club in Elizabeth City County that textile and other factories are drawn south for low wages and urged better organized labor and higher wages to boost trade.
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Old Point Comfort
Maury Maverick
Texas
South
Jeffersonian Democratic Club
Eliz
Abeth City
Texas Democrat
Conflicting GOP Efforts Fail to File for City Election
A last minute GOP withdrawal left no Republican ticket in High Point's city election. The nine Democratic candidates, announced Tuesday, will stand unopposed as the election proceeds. Everett Marsh had led the Republican slate before the withdrawal at 11:40 p m, leaving Democrats effectively re-elected to the council.
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Everett Marsh
Ben L. Herman
High Point Board of Elections
Proponents Reconsider Court Reform Strategy
Administration leaders rethink their approach to judiciary reorganization amid Supreme Court Wagner Act decisions. Roosevelt advisers expect new wage and hour standards proposals, possibly sent to Congress regardless of the court bill status.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Congress
Aimee Semple McPherson Returns as Defense Witness
Aimee Semple McPherson returned to the stand in Los Angeles as a defense witness in Roberta Sem ple's $150000 slander suit against Wilford Andrews. Roberta alleges Andrews accused her of being expelled from Angelus Temple last October for attempting to blackmail her mother.
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Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Roberta Semple
Wilfedd Andrews
Roberta
Andrews
Angelus Temple
Railroad Workers Planning Strike In San Francisco
C V McLaughlin vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers says 8500 Southern Pacific employees will strike at 6 p m Friday unless a satisfactory settlement is reached, signaling a major labor action in the West with potential service disruptions.
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San Francisco
C. V. McLaughlin
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Southern Pacific
Bank Robbery at Grand Rapids Branch
Three men robbed a National Bank of Grand Rapids branch in the morning and fled with about $25,000. Two entered the bank. one threatened a customer and another a teller before they joined a third man outside and escaped by car. Police set up roadblocks.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
National Bank of Grand Rapids
Lindbergh Kidnap Reward To Be Paid
Governor Hoffman signed a bill to appropriate 25000 dollars to pay the reward offered by New Jersey for the arrest and conviction of the Lindbergh baby kidnap killer. The action confirms state support for the high profile case and follows the April decision.
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Lindbergh
Trenton
N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
New Jersey
Roosevelt Sees World Peace Tied to Democracy and Trade
President Roosevelt addressed Pan American Union delegates on Pan American Day urging practical steps to implement recent Buenos Aires conference accords. He stressed unity of the Americas, maintenance of democracy, and opposition to insecurity and militarism as keys to lasting world peace and better economic relations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pan American Union
Bres
Pan Am
Americas
New World
Buenos Aires
Court Will Hear Four Local Cases At Guilford Term
Greensboro April 14 Special term Guilford Superior criminal court opens next week with Judge Felix Al presiding. Four High Point defendants are listed: Roland McCallum drunk and disorderly. Earl Clodfelter and Earl Pell for larceny and receiving. Harrison Brown for seduction. Odis Dudley for rape.
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Greensboro
High Point
Guilford Superior Criminal Co
Felix al
Waynesville
Roland McCallum
Clodfelter
Earl
Pell
Harrison Brown
Odis Dudley
Maddox Speaks To Fair Tax League
In Thomasville on April 14 special report notes members of the Fair Tax League met in the court room to hear D W Maddox address the group. He urged registration for the forthcoming election and hinted a league tie may appear with candidates chosen by acclamation at a mass meeting. The election is set for May 3 with the tax league aiming to lower the tax rate.
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Thomasville
F Tax League
D. W. Mdox
League
Fair Tax League
Tax League
Sanford Cotton Mill pays bonus to workers
Officials of the Sanford Cotton Mill announced today that workers have been paid a bonus of about one week’s wages, totaling more than $3,000.
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Sanford
Sanford Cotton Mille
Tighten purse strings in federal spending drive
The administration, citing shortfalls in tax revenues, orders immediate across the board expenditure curtailment for the fiscal year. Secretary Wallace reveals 860 AAA workers will be dropped from payroll by month’s end as part of the cut, aiming to keep the deficit near the $2.65 billion projection. Treasury officials anticipate substantial reductions elsewhere though the exact amounts remain unclear.
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Washington
Eeereiee
Roosevelt
Wallace
AAA
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Robert Wagner
Washington, D. C
Committee of Republicans
Aimee McPherson
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American Union
Wington
Maddox
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